Italy at the 2002 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	ITA
Nocname:	Italian National Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2002
Website:
Location:	Salt Lake City
Competitors:	112 (65 men, 47 women)
Sports:	12
Flagbearer:	Isolde Kostner (alpine skiing)
Rank:	7
Gold:	4
Silver:	4
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Italy competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

With Turin being the host of the 2006 Winter Olympics, an Italian segment featuring singers Irene Grandi and Elisa was presented at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Women's super-G
			Women's 15 km (freestyle, mass start)
			Women's 30 km (classical style)
			Men's individual
			Women's downhill
			Men's 4 × 10 km relay
			Women's 30 km (classical style)
			Men's 5000 m relay
			Women's super-G
			Men's sprint
			Women's 10 km (classical style)
			Ice dancing
			Women's parallel giant slalom

Alpine skiing

See main article: article and Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Kristian Ghedina	Downhill			1:42.54	35
Kurt Sulzenbacher				1:41.56	22
Alessandro Fattori				1:41.24	19
Roland Fischnaller				1:40.85	17
Alessandro Fattori	Super-G			DNF	-
Kurt Sulzenbacher				1:26.44	26
Patrick Staudacher				1:23.95	18
Roland Fischnaller				1:23.87	17
Giorgio Rocca	Giant Slalom	1:14.91	1:12.94	2:27.85	26
Alessandro Roberto		1:14.65	1:12.88	2:27.53	22
Alexander Ploner		1:12.86	DNF	DNF	-
Massimiliano Blardone		1:12.72	1:12.15	2:24.87	8
Alan Perathoner	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Giancarlo Bergamelli		DNF	-	DNF	-
Edoardo Zardini		DNF	-	DNF	-
Giorgio Rocca		DNF	-	DNF	-

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Kurt Sulzenbacher	1:41.49	DNF	-	DNF	-
Alessandro Fattori	1:40.15	50.30	55.12	3:25.57	13
Patrick Staudacher	1:39.23	49.51	53.73	3:22.47	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Lucia Recchia	Downhill			1:42.80	24
Daniela Ceccarelli				1:42.03	20
Patrizia Bassis				1:41.56	17
Isolde Kostner				1:40.01
Patrizia Bassis	Super-G			DNF	-
Isolde Kostner				1:14.99	13
Karen Putzer				1:13.86
Daniela Ceccarelli				1:13.59
Nicole Gius	Giant Slalom	1:18.58	1:16.96	2:35.54	19
Silke Bachmann		1:17.92	1:16.02	2:33.94	16
Denise Karbon		1:17.75	1:15.81	2:33.56	14
Karen Putzer		1:17.43	1:15.51	2:32.94	10
Sonia Vierin	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Denise Karbon		DNF	-	DNF	-
Silke Bachmann		55.69	57.25	1:52.94	18
Nicole Gius		55.57	55.44	1:51.01	10

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Patrizia Bassis	1:16.72	52.16	49.20	2:58.08	21
Elena Tagliabue	1:17.66	49.03	47.27	2:53.96	19
Lucia Recchia	1:17.28	48.88	46.94	2:53.10	18
Daniela Ceccarelli	1:16.75	48.35	46.71	2:51.81	15

Biathlon

See main article: article and Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Devis Da Canal	2	28:25.9	68
	Wilfried Pallhuber	1	27:35.7	50
	Paolo Longo	0	27:31.9	49
	René Cattarinussi	1	26:37.3	22
12.5 km pursuit ^2	Paolo Longo	1	36:38.8	37
	Wilfried Pallhuber	2	36:19.7	33
	René Cattarinussi	1	35:00.9	20

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
20 km	Rene Laurent Vuillermoz	54:00.7	6	1'00:00.7	72
	Wilfried Pallhuber	52:33.2	5	57:33.2	50
	Paolo Longo	55:11.9	1	56:11.9	33
	René Cattarinussi	52:57.2	2	54:57.2	21

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Siegrid Pallhuber	4	26:20.9	68
	Michela Ponza	2	23:36.9	46
	Nathalie Santer	3	23:14.7	40
	Saskia Santer	2	23:11.2	36
10 km pursuit ^4	Saskia Santer	7	36:41.8	42
	Michela Ponza	4	35:54.7	38

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
15 km	Nathalie Santer	DNF	-	DNF	-
	Saskia Santer	47:14.7	7	54:14.7	49
	Katja Haller	51:44.0	2	53:44.0	47
	Michela Ponza	50:13.6	2	52:13.6	36

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

See main article: article and Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia	Two-man	47.84	7	47.88	8	47.92	8	48.00	9	3:11.64	8
ITA-2	Cristian La Grassa Fabrizio Tosini	Two-man	48.04	10	48.16	13	48.03	9	48.37	20	3:12.60	11

Women

Cross-country skiing

See main article: article and Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

MenSprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fulvio Valbusa	2:57.60	28	did not advance
Freddy Schwienbacher	2:53.03	11 Q	2:57.7	2 Q	3:00.2	3 QB	2:56.1	5
Silvio Fauner	2:51.51	7 Q	2:53.9	4	did not advance
Cristian Zorzi	2:50.34	2 Q	2:52.1	2 Q	2:59.9	1 QF	2:57.2

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit^1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fulvio Valbusa	27:30.6	30 Q	24:42.7	18
Fabio Maj	27:16.4	26 Q	24:43.8	20
Pietro Piller Cottrer	27:06.2	22 Q	23:54.2	6
Giorgio Di Centa	26:30.9	3 Q	23:46.8	4

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Giorgio Di Centa	40:22.6	35
	Fulvio Valbusa	39:50.6	31
	Cristian Saracco	39:48.4	28
	Freddy Schwienbacher	39:44.9	26
30 km F	Silvio Fauner	1'19:43.9	51
	Fabio Maj	1'13:43.5	13
	Cristian Zorzi	1'13:10.0	9
	Pietro Piller Cottrer	1'11:42.8	4
50 km C	Fabio Santus	2'17:41.4	26
	Fabio Maj	2'14:32.4	14
	Giorgio Di Centa	2'12:59.6	11

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 10 km relay

WomenSprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Karin Moroder	3:21.92	26	did not advance
Magda Genuin	3:20.28	22	did not advance
Sabina Valbusa	3:19.22	17	did not advance
Gabriella Paruzzi	3:16.11	8 Q	3:16.2	2 Q	3:25.3	3 QB	3:26.1	8

Pursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit^2
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Cristina Paluselli	14:36.5	53	did not advance
Stefania Belmondo	13:50.4	17 Q	12:37.1	11
Sabina Valbusa	13:41.9	10 Q	12:23.9	9
Gabriella Paruzzi	13:33.9	8 Q	12:20.4	8

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Cristina Paluselli	30:59.4	39
	Antonella Confortola	30:42.2	34
	Marianna Longa	30:04.0	20
	Stefania Belmondo	28:45.8
15 km F	Antonella Confortola	41:57.8	16
	Sabina Valbusa	40:48.3	10
	Gabriella Paruzzi	40:25.7	6
	Stefania Belmondo	39:54.4
30 km C	Marianna Longa	1'44:02.5	33
	Antonella Confortola	1'37:47.4	19
	Stefania Belmondo	1'31:01.6
	Gabriella Paruzzi	1'30:57.1

² Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 5 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Vanessa Giunchi	30.5	21	20	20
Silvia Fontana	17.5	11	12	10

Pairs

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Federica Faiella Massimo Scali	35.4	18	18	17	18	18
Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio	6.0	3	3	3	3

Freestyle skiing

See main article: article and Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Luge

See main article: article and Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reinhold Rainer	44.927	11	44.801	7	44.814	19	45.212	20	2:59.754	12
Wilfried Huber	44.851	9	44.814	8	44.611	10	45.043	12	2:59.319	9
Armin Zöggeler	44.546	1	44.521	2	44.296	2	44.578	1	2:57.941

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	45.882	18	43.421	9	1:29.303	17
Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	43.278	7	43.338	7	1:26.616	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Natalie Obkircher	44.632	25	43.657	9	43.905	16	43.533	7	2:55.727	17
Waltraud Schiefer	44.209	20	43.798	15	43.879	15	43.830	16	2:55.716	16
Maria Feichter	44.042	17	43.999	20	44.050	22	44.359	25	2:56.450	22

Short track speed skating

See main article: article and Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fabio Carta	500 m	43.787	1 Q	43.113	3	did not advance
Nicola Franceschina		42.876	1 Q	DSQ	-	did not advance
Nicola Rodigari	1000 m	1:30.991	2 Q	1:27.578	3	did not advance
Fabio Carta		1:28.520	1 Q	1:28.186	1 Q	1:27.492	3 QB	1:35.589	6
Fabio Carta	1500 m	2:26.644	1 Q			2:25.072	1 Q	2:18.947	4
Nicola Rodigari		2:19.067	2 Q			2:53.907	5	did not advance
Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari Fabio Carta Maurizio Carnino Michele Antonioli	5000 m relay		7:10.787	2 Q	6:56.327

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Marta Capurso	500 m	46.313	1 Q	45.137	3	did not advance
Mara Zini		45.556	2 Q	44.876	2 Q	44.307	4 QB	45.494	8
Katia Zini	1000 m	DSQ	-	did not advance
Mara Zini		1:33.697	2 Q	1:33.880	3	did not advance
Mara Zini	1500 m	2:27.553	2 Q			2:32.899	4 QB	2:32.513	9
Katia Zini		3:19.248	6	did not advance
Marta Capurso Mara Zini Evelina Rodigari Marinella Canclini Katia Zini	3000 m relay		4:18.131	3 QB	4:20.014	5

Skeleton

See main article: article and Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Women

Ski jumping

See main article: article and Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Roberto Cecon	Normal hill	Pre-qualified			91.0	117.0	18 Q	91.5	116.0	233.0	19
Roberto Cecon	Large hill	Pre-qualified			120.0	113.0	23 Q	119.5	112.6	225.6	19

Snowboarding

See main article: article and Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Simone Salvati	DSQ	-	did not advance
Kurt Niederstätter	38.22	22	did not advance
Roland Fischnaller	37.70	19	did not advance
Walter Feichter	37.33	14 Q	Daniel Biveson W	Chris Klug L	did not advance		8

Men's halfpipe

Women's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Marion Posch	42.59	12 Q	Julie Pomagalski L	did not advance
Dagi Mair unter der Eggen	42.32	8 Q	Jagna Marczułajtis L	did not advance
Isabella Dal Balcon	42.26	6 Q	Katharina Himmler W	Lidia Trettel L	did not advance		7
Lidia Trettel	41.94	3 Q	Jana Šedová W	Isabella Dal Balcon W	Karine Ruby L	Jagna Marczułajtis W

Women's halfpipe

Speed skating

See main article: article and Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Dino Gillarduzzi	36.42	30	36.27	33	72.69	30
	Ermanno Ioriatti	36.30	28	DNF	-	DNF	-
	Davide Carta	35.70	22	35.69	29	71.39	23
1000 m	Dino Gillarduzzi					1:10.96	36
	Davide Carta					1:09.81	26
1500 m	Roberto Sighel					1:48.40	31
	Enrico Fabris					1:47.83	26
	Stefano Donagrandi					1:47.72	24
5000 m	Stefano Donagrandi					6:32.37	20
	Enrico Fabris					6:30.19	16
	Roberto Sighel					6:25.11	7
10,000 m	Roberto Sighel					13:26.19	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Chiara Simionato	38.45	18	38.47	15	76.92	16
1000 m	Chiara Simionato					1:14.86	10
1500 m	Nicola Mayr					2:00.73	27
	Chiara Simionato					1:58.52	16
3000 m	Nicola Mayr					4:15.79	22

References

• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com